About 900 volunteers are using binoculars at lakes and ponds to count the number of loons, as they have since 1983.
July 2013
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Maine lobster boats race in Friendship
Saturday’s races are part of the summer-long series of lobster boat competitions in ports along the Maine coast from Portland to Eastport.
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Somerset County takes brunt of Friday storms; 17,000 lose power
Somerset County appeared to take the brunt of the damage done by storms featuring high wind Friday night, and hundreds of people in Madison, Hartland, Cornville and St. Albans remained without electricity late Saturday afternoon.
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Bowen bucked LePage on hiring Miss Maine USA as education ambassador
Email trail between governor’s education adviser Jonathan Nass and education commissioner Stephen Bowen got heated as administration pushed position in 2011 and Bowen refused.
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BIRTHS: JUNE 14
AUGUSTA — A daughter, Mea Francis, was born June 14 at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Augusta campus, to Chelsey and Leo Francis of Augusta.
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LePage plan to hire Miss Maine USA drew rebuff
In emails from 2011, education chief Stephen Bowen said he could not justify hiring a ‘beauty queen’ amid a fiscal crunch.
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Morning Sentinel area police log, July 19, 2013
A LifeFlight helicopter was sent to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Wilder Hill Road in Smithfield at around 4 p.m. Friday.
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Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail presentation set
OAKLAND — The Oakland Public Library will host a talk and presentation on the Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail project at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30. The presenter, Paul Johnson, of Oakland, is a retired Inland Fisheries and Game biologist who worked in the Greenville area and knows the trail first hand. The trail consists of Wabanaki canoe routes in the Kennebec and Penobscot drainage areas. The routes were used by Thoreau in his explorations of Maine in the 1800s.
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Parade planned for East Madison Days
EAST MADISON –Family events are planned for East Madison Days starting today. The History House, will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A baked bean supper is going to be served from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., at the Grange. Cost is $8 for adults, and $4 for children.
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RELIGION BRIEFS
BELGRADE — North Belgrade Baptist Church, 8 Station Road, will host a vacation Bible school from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday, Aug. 5-9.